During my intership I primarily worked on a private residence in located in Miami. I took on the responsibility of designing living areas and furniture, overseeing client presentations, and coordinating on-site activities. Utilizing my proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, and V-Ray; I developed renders and drawings and details for a variety of projects.
Spring 2023 CNC Lab | Pratt Production Facilities Monitor
Fall 2022Spring 2023 Hart Marlow | Graduate Assistant
I served as an assistant to A.P. Hart Morlow for a year, supporting various classes he taught at Pratt. In this role, my responsibilities encompassed aiding minor students with class-related queries, curating class materials, and coordinating some digital sharing environments in collaboration with the student office.
As an intern at BINAA, my primary focus was on an office project in early design stages and several residential projects that were near construction phase. My tasks involved modifying existing drawings and 3D models using AutoCAD and Rhino. Additionally, I contributed to physical models and visuals, creating them with tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Spring 2024 Received Distinction in Master of Architecture
Fall 2024 2023 SUNY ESF Mass Timber Design Competition | 1st Prize Winner
Fall 2023 Waste[ED] Panel & Exhibition | Speaker
Summer 2021 Amorf Natural Stone Product Design Competition | Finalist
Spring 2021 Dean’s High Honor List
Summer 2019 SARAT (Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey) Project |Koç University Online Certificate Program
Fall 2018 Auburn University Concerete Competition | Finalist
CONTACT
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New York City, NY issuu /issuu.com/selindemirbas linkedn
AQUATICA has a program unlike any other: a waste to energy center, a recycling center and a public pool-gym comes together in the heart of New York City right by the water. The form discovers ways to bring resilience to the city while preparing for future flood scenarios.
I was able to develop unique strategies to blend such different programs harmoniously while also designing unique structures to hold them.
a. Chimney
b. Flue Gas Treatment c. Electrostatic Precipitation
Incinerator
1. Rooftop Outdoor Pool
Building Cores
Strategically situated below the public plaza, the service level operates as the primary waste entry point, marking the initiation of waste treatment processes. Interconnected waste-to-energy machinery distributed throughout the site.
Recycling’s inception takes place beneath the plaza’s North end, featuring an inventive enclosed glass conveyor belt system that transports materials from North to South, while providing visitors captivating views of the recycling process.
2100’s High Tide
2100’s Flood Level
2050’s High Tide
2100’s High Tide
2100’s Flood Level
2100’s Flood Level
2100’s High Tide
2100’s Flood Level
2080s - High Estimate: 58 inches
2100s - High Estimate: 8 feet
1:8 Scale Chunk Model
1:8 Scale Chunk Model
1. GYM Lobby
Bicycles
Running
Weight
Dance Studio
Juice Bar
a. Bailing Room
b. Incinerator
c. Tipping Hall
A _ Section
1. Incinerator 2. Electrostatic Percipitation 3. Flue Gas Treatment
B _ Section
1. Chimney
2. Flue Gas Treatment
Communal Housing Fall 2023
CASA CREATIVO
Partner: Joseph Dignan
Instructors: Peter Zellner
Roger Cortes
Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator
Casa Creativo asks questions of the institution’s role in art, of the relationship between art and life, and of art’s subservience to capital. How can these three axes be bent toward escape? How can their rearrangement give birth to new clusters of meaning in art?
Casa Creativo allocates space for a mixture of artist residency units, accompanying long term family units, and auxillary gallery, studio, and cafe programming aiming to bring the art institute to a local scale and to turn production into a part of daily life.
Artist / Short Term Units Family / Long Term Units
The Edge House is born from the new habits and dynamics required by the new normal. It is a house that aims to provide spatial answers to current physical and social problems in our lives.
The house is placed on the roof of a famous art gallery; the YKKS building with a 60 degree slope. While the slope enables new spatial possibilities, the visual and auditory limitations of the floor layout give its users the experience of spending some private time alone.
It is aimed to be perceived as an element of tension by Istiklal Street users. This situation creates a new focal point in the flow of the buildings to the place and the main that meets the Edge House.
Before the pandemic people only had a certain amount of time to spend indoors with other residents of the house.
However, with a pandemic threat we were obliged to stay at home and do everything at home with the same people.
It looks like we are not going back to our old ways even after the pandemic is over.
So the solution must be inside the home- or better provided by the home itself.
Avenue YeniÇarşıStreet
Ara Güler Street
Yapı Kredi Culture & Arts Gallery
Galatasaray Highschool
Turkey
Main structure of the host building is deemed capable of carrying the parasite structure for the project.
Reinforced concrete core and steel column to carry the main structure of the parasite house.
Main structure of the parasite house: a steel cage to carry the loads of floors and walls.
Both welded and bolted connections are used.
Welded connection is used on the main structure of the house together with the anchor plates connecting the main body to the column.
Bolted connection is preferred for steel tension componants to enable easy application on site. Anchors are bolted to other buildings on six different spots to stabilize the column.
Anchor detail on floors in order to stabilize column. Bolted connection for ropes.
Dominated by natural boundaries that occur in a pattern seasonally or yearly. Dominant landscape is determined by the density of the vegetation. While being a home for the wild life, nature is the ideal escape for humans.
Borders between the nature and the built environment are ambiguous in rural sites. Settlement plan is done in human scale. It is a place for both production and consumption. Organic growth over time for both the road network and the settlement are seen commonly.
Natural life is confined to parks in urban sites. Precisely planned rigid lines of strcutures and roads leave such small room for the actor to move freely.
Bird Paradise National Park Birdparadise Village Bandırma Port Area
Natural Rural Urban
Figure/ Ground
Actors
Lecturer
Researcher
Student -Pre-school -Primary+ Middle School -Highschool -University -Graduate
Means of Learning
Catalog of Program Elements
Agriculture 4.0 can help develop more flexible and unique farming strategies by making them less dependent on external inputs. drones, sensors, smart agriculture, autonomus vehicles, cloud
Agro-Tourism agronomy, local, embraces the culture, small scale, eco friendly, sustainable Mass Tourism crowded, pollutes the environment, noisy, causes traffic, urbanization, destruction of nature
Aim is to connect all parties under a virtual structure which will allow them to share data, make decisions and create a circular economy.
open plan, adaptable studios, flipped classroom, encourages encounters
Tourist -Bird
Precedent Study & Concept Development
One of the designs I studied was Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design for Columbia University’s medical school education building. The way they took education out of classrooms and embedded it into the building inspired the library concept of this project.
Places that perform operations in the field of collecting, storing and distributing the obtained information. Each library was established to meet the social information need. library: open learning experience
The Learning Route
Spaces become tools in the process of transferring recorded information and producing new ones, and therefore they must be adaptable and changeable.
This diagram shows all program elements with their color codes to show the level of spatial richness the institute reached in order to stimulate different leanring types to users from all from different backgrounds. Learning Route is naturally shaped as a result of library concept. Manyas Lake
Area 1: Urban
Area 2: Rural
Area 2: Natural
Image: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Why biogas?
Bandırma is one of the cities where the most animal waste is produced. In order to use this potential, a biogas energy production center that is working together with a farm and an automated agricultural production center and is integrated into the rural site of the academy and the necessary units have been spatialized on this site as well.
Hangar
Restaurant
Hydrophonic Farm
Institute Units
Paradise 1.0 suggests fully autonomous production and living prototypes of urban, rural, and natural contexts as well as leisure time activities for many different user groups. Within this vision the rural prototype is designed as a production base and a farm coexisting with an institute and other social elements for Ieisure activities.
Biogas plant suggests a clean way of producction and waste elimination while traditional and experimental farming activities take place in the same ground. Agricultural machinery techonologies are tested; machines are maintained and stored here. All user groups are included in the active learning process by either being a part of production process or withnesing the process very closely due to design decisions.
Accomodation Processor
Waste Storage
Silos
Bio Lab
Gas Holder
Hydrophonic Farm
Green Bridge
Natural Fertilizer Storage Tanks
Agriculture: Crop Processing Units
Farm Units
Biogas & Electricty Generation Units
2 backbones of the institute studies on seed genetics
The idea is to build the institute HQ on these 2 foundations physically in harmony with the terrain
RC Cores, Longspan Structure
Wood & Steel Frame Systems Future Growth Alternative
Open Air
open library was built as a bridge to support inter-unit encounters and learning.
rest of the program elements are placed in harmony with the terrain and allowing future growth
Community Gardens
Sports Fields
Strcuture Flexible
Strcuture
View of the stucture from the open air theater
Why float on water?
In accordonce with the future vision, it was decided to place the units on sea. The main reason is that the required area for data storage will increase in time with industry 4.0
Placing servers on water allows endless growth in the number of server units due to need within time.
Meanwhile, in order to provide low temperatures needed by the servers, sea water cooling method uses the possibilities of the area in the best way, while providing energy savings.
Server units also enable the creation of a social infrastructure by establishing a physical links between them.
Cooling Mechanism
Server units are designed to cool down using treated sea water. Sea water is teken from the bottom of the unit and carried to the top to be cooled down with the help of fan. Then distributed to smaller pipes.
The ever evolving data technologies allow us to make exact measurements, predictions or create machines that communicate and work without human interaction (loT). All the data produced need a
Fan Motor
Disributer Unit
Entrance
Platform Floating Barrel
Server Steel Structure
Vertical Circulation
Water Pre- Treatment
Water Pipe
Sea Water Inlet
Hot Water Outlet
Servers with Bandırma Port behind
storage place. Server Unit prototypes are designed for the need and then combined with social program regarding leisure time activites.
